Okay -- I've heard of the Russian Mafia (even think I bought computer parts from them in Indiana...), Chinese Mafia, Italian Mafia, etc. But I have never heard of the Lesbian Mafia before. And to think they are infiltrating our government right now -- taking out college professors -- and corrupting our politicians. Sheesh -- where have I been? Or maybe this guy is just wacko...

http://www.lesbianstudies.com/

Okay -- don't ask how I came across it (actually I was browsing someone elses blog -- really! Linkfilter.net). But here is an article for those of the female anatomy persuasion. Ever been in that situation where you just HAD to pee but could only find a men's restroom? Here's an article on how to pee standing up at a mens urinal! It includes a "Problems and Solutions" page, comments from readers, and of course tips on how to accomplish this feet.

http://www.restrooms.org/standing.html

Of course I have put off any preperations for this trip until today. Why? Why not?

Went climbing tonight and managed to make it up a 5.10c. Worked on a 5.11a that I had completed a couple times ago -- didn't make it up it this time. And then tried a 5.10d and couldn't top that one off either. I don't know what was wrong! I wasn't doing bad but wasn't doing great.

Oh well. I guess I have to go get ready for the trip. I'll finish Alias first.

--B--

Went to the city tonight to help Chris and Gretchen move. Chris's call to fame is two-fold. You might have heard of him because of Lockergnome or possibly from his TV show, Call for Help on TechTV. And Gretchen's call to fame is being his wife. I'm not sure which job(s) are harder!

Chris and Gretchen were in need of help moving their tech-related stuff. Items that they *really* cared about and didn't want the movers touching (yes, they are True Geeks).

Even a Chris without coffee was still wired. It was amazing! Talk about tons of ideas. We talked about everything from Gnomedex 3 to dealing with stress, to a new book that he is working on, to 80s movies, to ... the list goes on. His brain is literally always on -- it's way kewl! Kinda like how I imagine being at a Think Tank would be.

Anywase, they are moving from near Pac Bell Stadium to the Castro district. For around $100 more they are going from 800 sq ft to around 1700 square feet. Going from an apartment type place (converted warehouse really) to the top part in one of those old kewl houses. It's way impressive -- wood floors, way kewl fireplace, lots of hidden nooks and crannies. They're going to have an intresting time setting up the network and computer equipment. Out of four main rooms I counted 6 power outlets. Truly an old house. Parking sucks tho. And expensive rent. Still -- you walk out the door and can see all the way to the bay. It was way kewl.

Anywase, it was a relatively painless move of the puter equipment. Two cars made it into one trip. And Chris -- if you end up reading this and you need help with the network just lemme know! I'm more'n'happy to help out setting up friends' home networks!

We topped off the evening with a great meal at this little ... ummm ... Italian (maybe?) restaraunt. Chris and Gretchen took us out to dinner (they didn't have to -- really!). The chef recognized them and gave us a special appetizer and then came over to say hello. It was a GREAT meal -- quite quite quite good. Can't remember the name of the restaraunt tho...

All in all a fun afternoon/evening. At least *I* thought it was fun.
I'm off to bed early as these gettin' up at 6am to get to work at 7 so I can leave early days are wearing me out!!

--B--

I have updated the Wierd Web Wonders page with a couple of unique (ahem) websites for everyone viewing pleasure!

w00p!
--B--

Yes -- you read the title correctly. There is a church out there called "The Church of Beer". And yes, they do have a website. Now what would you expect to find at the Church of Beer's website? Why you can find Haiku's on mullets, the latest sermons, reviews of beers, and of course, a place for you to become ordained!! All bow to the high priestess Missy of the Church of Beer -- I can just see it now!
http://www.beerchurch.com/
Or you just want to become ordained?
http://www.beerchurch.com/ordination.htm

And you thought I was done with bathroom humor! HAH!
I traversed high and low on the web to come up with this tasty site.
Have you ever wondered if it's all right to use the kiddy urinal? Have you ever wanted to know what was considered appropiate bathroom conversation material? This is the site for you! The Internation Center for Bathroom Etiquette!
http://www.icbe.org/

Along the lines of death art (see below) I bring you LifeGem.
This company promisses to take the carbon from your ashes and compress it into a sparkling diamond. They always did say diamonds are forever! But I really must wonder about this... it's quite scary in some sort of sadistic way.
http://www.lifegems.com

New images posted from my climbing adventures this past weekend. The first ones are available at:
Climbing At Porter Creek 01
And:
Climbing At Porter Creek 02

Enjoy!
--B--

You ever drink one of those Sobe drinks? Ever looked under the lid?
Quote of the Day from Sobe Drink:

Shag a Lizard!

--B--

Had a good evening climbing with Jason -- didn't actually finish many routes but I got up quite a ways on several 5.10's -- just couldn't seem to finish any. My arms were dead!

Jason did pretty good tho -- workin' his way up a 5.8 and working on another couple 5.8's.

Also go Missy to sign up to be a member. She'll probably use the workout equipment most but when/if she wants to climb she can! At least now she can work out whenever she wants!

I got some more work done on the oldbrowsers website. Started work on the downloads section tonight. Just the very basics -- design/layout/etc.

Guess thats it so I'm off to bed!
--B--

You ever have those dreams where you swear it was real?
You ever have those dreams where you totally know you are dreaming?

I've had both this weekend -- only I can't remember either one.
And what makes it even more annoying is that (at least for me) I dream and there is a "soundtrack" to the dream. Only once I wake up I can't remember any of the music. That happened this morning.

I remember something about writing some music and it was way kewl music. And right as I was finishing it up ... the alarm went off.

Oh well -- another tune that will just be stuck in my head.
--B--

Jason and I found the climbing area I couldn't track down yesterday. It was WAY farther down the creek then I was looking.

But lets start at the beginning of an interesting Sunday. Missy and I went to work to print out some pictures for her grandmother. Then grabbed some grub and headed to Bead Bath and Beyond to purchase a bagel slicer. Missy had been cutting bagles by hand and it made me flinch every time watching her do it.

So then we got back and it was time to go climb with Jason. We headed off to Porter Creek again in hopes of finding the elusive climbing area. Down the creek we went and after about a mile (well maybe just under a mile -- but it was quite a wase down...) we found it. The rock marked with "LSD" in spray paint. It was quite a bit taller then I felt comfortable climbing tho -- at least without a rope. But now we know where it is and can head back with a rope cause there were at least two bolts on the top.

Got back home to find that there was a problem with the AOL sites at work. Guess it was a big deal or something -- anywase, my pager hadn't gone off so I had no clue that anything was wrong -- but somehow thats my fault as well. So I guess you know, whatever.

Then I found out that one of the owners/vice-president/whatever at work had signed up for a remote monitoring service of our site about a week ago. Now about a week ago we started having incredible problems with one of our report servers. It seemed to crash webservers left and right. Michael and I had tried to figure out what was wrong with it and hadn't figured it out. So tonight Michael puts two and two together and comes up with 5 and decides that hey -- it could be this remote service thats causing the problems. We don't know for sure yet but I went ahead and denied all traffic from the class C where that monitoring service was located and we'll see if the report server crashes again.

Oh well -- crappy ending to a quite good day. Oh yah -- had Sushi for dinner -- that was kewl :)

--B--

Had a relaxing Saturday today.
First I slept in TONS -- that was nice!
Then we went and had a late lunch at Bufa (good Mexican resteraunt!)

Got back and was trying to decide what to do and decided I'd try and go find a place to climb outside. Grabbed my guidebook and headed off to try and find one of the closer places. I was shooting for one of two places on Porter Creek Rd. The first one had a bunch of bouldering areas -- the second was a lead climb area with only three bouldering problems. So I drove past where I thought it was, doubled back, missed it again and then pulled into an area where I thought it might be. I followed the little dirt path down to the creek only -- no climbing areas were apparent to me!

So I went up and down the creek looking for the climbing area only I couldn't find it. So back in the car I went to find the other location. It was much easier to find. Only there isn't nearly the same amount of climbing available there. Oh well. I took some pictures of it -- I'll upload 'em sometime this weekend.

Tonight we've been watching movies. Got tired of TeeVee and Tivo (well not tired of Tivo, just tired of what was recorded on Tivo). So we watched Clash of the Titans (or Clash of the Dimes as Missy calls it). And now we are watching Harry Potter -- a pretty good movie -- it grows on you (deffinately one of the better scores that John Williams has done).

I've been working on oldbrowsers.org as well. Got the history section finished. I had a funny bug with the next button that ended up being that I hadn't scrolled over far enough to copy and paste a section of code into as I was replacing a section that wasn't working. Oh well -- an hour wasted.

I think I've hammered out the db section for the browsers themselves as well. I had it mostly completed except for a couple of overlooked items -- like Platform, download counts, etc. I think I've got that all straightened out tho.

I'll start work on the code for that section tomorrow probly. I've also decided to add a "forum" section. Why? I dunno -- cause it's kewl? I grabbed the code for the forum thats on asp.net to go through it and see how they are doin' it. That'll be a later project tho I think. Get the downloads section done first and then work on the forum.

Guess thats about it fer now.
L8tz all!
--B--